Palliative Care to Drive Healthcare Value: Mount Sinai Hospital

Presented on:November 3, 20161pm-2pm ET

Palliative care integration in hospitals and health systems is essential for improved care of the seriously ill, and has been proven to cut costs, strengthen care quality, improve efficiency, and reduce readmissions rates by as much as 50%.

Set clear performance and outcomes expectations for palliative care teams

Apply new strategies for expanding and/or strengthening palliative care across the continuum to improve financial and clinical outcomes

Agenda

The Needs of The Seriously Ill and the Imperatives for Change

Changes in population demographics

Predominant ADL deficiencies and limitations

Symptom and family burdens of serious illness

Hospital as the last place of care – satisfaction rates and financial impact

Hospice and Value in Healthcare

Clinical benefits of hospice

The impact of hospice on health care utilization

Concentration of risk and spending

How Does Palliative Care Improve Value?

The function of the palliative care team

Improving outcomes

Improving communication

Reducing unnecessary expenditures

Reducing readmissions

Palliative Care Across the Continuum

Hospitals

Practice-based models

Home care models

Long-term care

Meet the Speaker

Dr. R. Sean Morrison is Co-Director of the Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center and Director of its National Palliative Care Research Center, national organizations devoted to increasing the palliative care evidence base in the United States. He is also the Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute; Professor of Geriatrics and Medicine; and Hermann Merkin Professor of Palliative Medicine in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. During 2009-2010, he was President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

Dr. Morrison has received numerous awards, including AAHPM’s PDIA Palliative Medicine National Leadership, Excellence in Research, and Visionary Awards; American Cancer Society’s Distinguished Achievement in Cancer and Clinical Research Professor Awards; and the American Geriatrics Society’s Outstanding Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award. In 2014, he was listed as one of Thomson Reuters’s World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. Dr. Morrison is currently the principal investigator of an NIA funded five-year multisite study. He has received over $35 million in research funding and published over 120 research articles.

R. Sean Morrison received his BA from Brown University and MD from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and his fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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